thanks guys, enough ideas there to try, I am actually not 100% sure if
it is disk or the wee control panel in the enclosure because I am still
hunting round the house for an old IDE drive to put in it and try.
As for the data, just some old photos which I probably have other
places. The disk failed during a period when I was setting up a better
back up system and part of why I hadn't backed up this particular disk
was that I had forgotten how old it was!!! Five years!! I thought it
was about two.
Lesson for future---stick date bought on all external disks.
Declan
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